Chapter 32, Undercover.

G,U,N HQ.

Shortly after their reunion in Westoplis Rouge and Shadow had headed straight for G,U,N HQ, there had been some confusion when they first got there, some of the G,U,N solders had almost shot Shadow thinking that he was a copy but luckily Rouge was able to stop them before anything bad happened.

After a short period where Rouge had explained that this was the real Shadow both her and Shadow had been called to a meeting with Commander Tower, soon Shadow and Rouge was standing in a room with Commander Tower.

"Agent Shadow I must say that I'm glad to see you alive" said the Commander, "Its good to see you too, now can someone tell me what's been going on while I was gone" said Shadow, "Yes I suppose you have missed out on a lot" said the Commander.

Commander Tower pressed a button and a computer screen turned on showing many details about the war, "Three months ago, shortly after your disappearance, Dr Eggman declared war on the world" said the Commander.

"Dr Eggman launched several attacks on multiple cities and towns, luckily we have been able to prevent the fall of any large cities" said the Commander, Shadow listened while Commander Tower continued to explain about the war.

Shadow learned about G,U,N's struggle to protect the world and about the Resistance who had recently suffered a crippling defeat, Shadow was quite surprised when he learned about Sonic's apparent death, however it wasn't until Commander Tower mentioned Infinite that Shadow's interest was truly spiked.

"The backbone of Dr Eggman's forces has been this mysterious being known as Infinite, he appears to possess powers that we still don't understand" said the Commander as he showed Shadow a image of Infinite.

"Wait, I've seen him before" said Shadow, "You have" questioned Rouge, "Yes, he's the one who sent me to that strange pocket dimension" said Shadow, Rouge seemed shocked while Commander Tower was in deep thought about something.

"Agent Shadow, does Dr Eggman or Infinite know that you escaped your prison" asked the Commander, "As far as I know, no, after escaping I came straight here" said Shadow, "Interesting, we may be able to use this to our advantage" said the Commander as he rubbed his chin.

Resistance HQ, War room.

Knuckles, Tails and Amy was all sitting in the War room, Tails was informing Knuckles about the new wispons that he and Gadget had just finished making.

"So this new wispon can hold about three different powers" said Knuckles, "That's right, and we can change which powers go into each wispon" said Tails, "Excellent, I hope that they can help us" said Knuckles.

Despite Knuckles best attempts at sounding excited about the new wispon he still couldn't help but sound depressed, it broke Tails's heart to see one of his closest friends reduced to such a state.

Just then the door opened and Rouge walked in with a big smile on her face, "Hey guys, I've got a big surprise for you" she said cheerfully, "A surprise? I hope that it's a good one" said Knuckles trying to sound enthusiastic.

"Trust me, its better than just good" said Rouge as she stepped aside and allowed Shadow to walk in, Tails and Amy both gasped at the sight of Shadow, however Knuckles mistook this Shadow for one of the copies and he immediately jumped out of his chair to attack the black hedgehog.

Knuckles jumped at Shadow an attempted to deliver a punch right at his head, but Shadow was too fast and he easily dodged the attack leaving Knuckles to punch the wall instead leaving a large dent in it.

"You red imbecile, I'm the real me" said Shadow sounding very annoyed at Knuckles, "Wait, Shadow, you mean the real Shadow" said Tails unable to believe his eyes, "He's as real as you and me, I ran into him at Westoplis" said Rouge.

"But how, I mean where have you been all this time" asked Amy, "I was sent to a strange pocket dimension by this Infinite guy, it seems that time moved differently there and by the time I got out three months had passed" explained Shadow.

"Really, so Infinite can send people to pocket dimensions as well, just how powerful is he" said Tails, "Wait, what if that's what happened to Sonic" said Amy, everyone looked at her in confusion.

"I just saying, if Shadow could be trapped there for three months and we never learned about it, then Sonic could be trapped there as well" clarified Amy, as time had gone on everyone had lost faith that Sonic was alive except for Amy, she was the only one who still believed that he was alive.

Everyone turned to Shadow hoping for an answer, "I'm afraid that I can't help you, that dimension kept me trapped in some kind of nightmare version of my past, if Sonic was trapped in there than I have no way of knowing" said Shadow.

This seemed to kill whatever hope the group had gained, that is except for Amy who was now more convinced that ever that Sonic was alive.

"Well, regardless, at least your back Shadow" said Tails, "Yes, hopefully with your help we can turn this war around" said Knuckles, "I don't take orders from you echidna" said Shadow.

"What" said Knuckles sounding rather offended, "Commander Tower's already given Shadow his orders, we just came here to fill you guys in" said Rouge, "Well don't keep us in suspense, what's the plan" asked Amy.

"When I encountered those copies of myself they didn't immediately attack, Commander Tower hopes that I might be able to infiltrate Eggman's army by posing as one of the copies" explained Shadow.

"Wait, your going undercover" said Amy sounding surprised, "Yes, the Commander's orders was quite clear, I'm to leak any information that I can, and if I get the chance I'm to assassinate Dr Eggman" explained Shadow.

"Assassinate" said Knuckles, Tails and Amy all at once, "Do you have a better idea" said Shadow bluntly, no one said a word, they all knew that the death of Eggman could mean the end of the war.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I need to find a way into the Doctor's army" said Shadow as he walked out of the room.

Robotroplis.

Shadow stealthily made his way through Robotroplis, he was searching for some Shadow copies that he could follow back to New Metropolis, finally after almost an hour of searching Shadow saw a small group of his copies leaving the city.

"Well, lets see if this works" thought Shadow as he made his way over to the copies, Shadow followed the copies out of Robotroplis, the copies all walked in a perfectly straight line not a single one of them realised that Shadow wasn't one of them, "This might actually work" thought Shadow.